‘The Fox and the Goose’, 1833

Description

Mounted etching, entitled ‘The FOX and the GOOSE.’, designed, etched and published by George Cruikshank in 1833.

At least 25 caricatures were published during the 1830s ridiculing Morison’s Pills. Here a large central scene, flanked by two smaller ones on either side, portraying a ‘Quack’ Doctor (James Morison) as a fox, and his patients as geese.

In the main scene the fox, dressed in a frock coat, and standing on a box of Morison’s Universal Vegetable Pills addresses a flock of eagerly attentive geese saying “My Universal Pills’ are quite divine! If one don’t do, you may take nine.”

Behind him is the front of a building titled; “BRITISH COLLEGE OF HEALTH ESTABLISHED 1828”, and over the street is the “LONDON COLLEGE OF HEALTH”, and a smaller flock of geese gather around its porch on which two more foxes display medicines and pillboxes. The British College of Health was established by Morison to defend his system of medicine and promote his pills. The other large building is the rival London Colleg